
2018 Mumbai Security Summit
The year 2018 has been a busy and eventful year for security and fraud leaders. As the industry witnessed high-end breaches and frauds increase in scale and frequency, businesses are working to ensure an effective, swift and well-orchestrated response. But even as we see heightened levels of maturity in the industry, the wheel keeps spinning, and the security fraternity faces fresh, unforeseen cybersecurity challenges as we move onwards into 2019. Hear from industry leaders and experts in specialties ranging from threat hunting with artificial intelligence, cognitive behavioural analytics, use of deception technologies; to enhancing authentication using block chain, and operationalizing threat intelligence in OT. The event will provide you the opportunity to learn from industry influencers, earn CPE credits, meet with leading technology providers, and be a part of the ISMG community.
Highlights from our summit held on November 29th in Mumbai

Sharda Tickoo
Technology Head, Trend Micro
Sharda Tickoo currently serves as Technical Head at Trend Micro. Having spent considerable time in many technical roles at Trend Micro, Tickoo has also been a Senior Manager of Risk for EY.

Bhaskar Pramanik
Board Member-State Bank of India & Former Chairman, Microsoft India
Bhaskar Pramanik currently serves as a board member for the State Bank of India. As the former Chairman of Microsoft India he looked after the company's overall sales, marketing and all other transactions across India. He retired from Microsoft in September 2017. Prior to joining Microsoft, Pramanik held leadership position at such esteemed organizations as Sun Microsystems and Cisco Networks. Through his more than 30 years of experience in the Indian IT industry, he is crediting with building his organizations' presence in India.

Avinash Lotke
Director - Technology Solutions, CyberSecurity Solution Group, Microsoft
Avinash Lotke currently serves as Director of Technology Solutions in the CyberSecurity Solution Group of Microsoft. Lotke is responsible for driving Microsoft's sales and business development across APJ. He spends his time working with customers and partners, to address their business needs. He also interacts closely with product teams across the globe to incorporate feedback into the product capabilities. Prior to joining Microsoft, he was Business Development Director for Symantec's Threat Protection Business in Asia Pacific & Japan. During his tenure, he held multiple positions including regional product marketing, sales and systems engineering leadership roles. Prior to Symantec, Lotke worked with Microsoft as a Technology Specialist in Singapore for close to 5 years.

Harshil Doshi
Security Strategist, Forcepoint
Harshil Doshi currently serves as Security Strategist for Forcepoint. Having prior experience with such titans as Symantec, Tech Mahindra and RSA, he has over 10 years of hands on experience in product development, pre-sales, solution architecture, and enterprise sales in the IT security space.


Charanjit Singh Sodhi
Executive Director - Head of Identity and Access Management, Nomura Wholesale
Sodhi is the executive director and the head of identity and access management and India head of business continuity management at Nomura Wholesale. He served with distinction as an officer in the Indian Navy, where he was awarded the Chief of Naval Staff Gold Medal and the Sword of Honor. After that, he has worked at SecureSynergy, Fidelity, Airtel, and JPMorgan Chase.

Rohas Nagpal
Chief Blockchain Architect, HyFi Blockchain
Rohas Nagpal is a blockchain evangelist and Chief Blockchain Architect of Primechain Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Over the past 17 years, he has investigated cyber crimes and data breaches for hundreds of organisations across dozens of sectors including aerospace, banking, defence, enforcement, IT, manufacturing, media, medical, pharmaceuticals, shipping and trading. Nagpal developed an interest in virtual currencies and blockchain technology while investigating a case of organized criminals using bitcoin. Since 2011, he has been working extensively in the blockchain domain.

Abhishant Pant
Founder, Cashless Journey
Abhishant Pant is the founder of Cashless Journey, a non-profit endeavor to understand the challenges and opportunities in our journey as a society towards "Digital first Cashless Society". An active participant in Fintech, his background includes leadership positions at Visa, Vodafone, HSBC and ICICI Bank.
Panel Discussion: Banking Fraud and Breaches: The Implications and the Security Lessons Learned
Nitin Bhatnagar - PCI Security Standards Council , Samir Dani - ICICI Bank , Ashutosh Jain - Axis Bank , Krishna Sastry - PwC , Brijesh Singh, Additional Director General of Police, Govt. Of Maharashtra - Additional Director General of Police, Govt. Of Maharashtra • •
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Nitin Bhatnagar
Associate Director-India, PCI Security Standards Council
Bhatnagar, associate director, PCI Security Standards Council leads the Council’s efforts in increasing adoption and awareness of the PCI Security Standards in India. In this role, Bhatnagar works closely with the PCI Council Management Team, affiliate members, payment brands, regulators, Merchants, Service Providers and key influencers/decision makers from payment card industry. His primary responsibilities include gathering feedback from industry leaders and driving education effort by increasing participation from India through active involvement in local and regional events, industry conferences and meetings with key stakeholders.

Samir Dani
Assistant General Manager - Information Security Group, ICICI Bank

Ashutosh Jain
CISO, Axis Bank
Ashutosh Jain currently serves as CISO with Axis Bank. He provides strategic direction and delivers cyber security, information risk and security governance at Axis Bank, including eight international branches. His earlier career has spanned across: Barclays Bank, where he headed multiple roles for technology risk, information risk for India and emerging markets, a cluster of 14 countries across Asia and Africa; Nomura India, where he headed the technology governance, global IT security operations, global IT security engineering and Asia technology risk teams for the global investment bank, based out of India; AXA Business Services, where he managed enterprise risk as CISO; Bank of America, where he established the technology audit function for South Asia, and was responsible for bank audits in the South Asia and Far East Region; PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he was responsible for operations and systems risk management services for various engagements in business process controls, application reviews and IS security.

Krishna Sastry Pendyala
Exec. Dir., Cyber Security Incident Response & Digital Forensic Service, PwC
Mr Krishna Sastry Pendyala currently serves as Executive Director, Advisory, Forensic Technology Services, PwC India. His prior experience includes Global Head, Fraud Management & Digital Forensics for Tata Consultancy Services, 23 years with Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt. of India as Forensic Scientist and handled a large number of Cyber Investigations of national and international importance. Sasty's core area of expertise includes off-line & online Digital Forensic investigations, Cyber security breach investigation, Incident response Management, Malware analysis and e-discovery. Through INTERPOL General Secretariat, Lyons & national central bureau (INTERPOL) India, Sastry as a subject matter expert trained Law Enforcement officials of more than 95 countries in Asia, Africa and Pacific regions in Electronic Fraud & cyber-crime investigations and Digital Forensics.

Brijesh Singh
Additional Director General of Police, Govt. Of Maharashtra
Singh is inspector general of police-training, Govt. of Maharashtra. Previously, he was CISO in Maharashtra. He is the former IG of the Criminal Investigation Department. He is also designated inspector general of police - Women Atrocity Prevention and Cybercrime, a special authority created by the Maharashtra government to tackle cyberthreats.

Rajesh Thapar
Group CISO, OakNorth
Thapar is group CISO and head IT for OakNorth. He has more than 22 years of experience leading cyber security and information technology in banking and financial sector (IDBI Bank, Citigroup Global Services, Yes Bank) and IBM.

Diwakar Dayal
Regional Director, SAARC, SentinelOne
Dayal is regional director and country manager for SentinelOne’s business across India & SAARC, responsible for developing and executing EDR leader’s growth strategy for the region. He is a cyber security industry veteran with more than 23 years of experience in India & Asia Pacific region.

Kaustubh Medhe
General Manager-Cyber Defense Center and Head-SoC & Data Security, Reliance Industries

Ian Farquhar
Distinguished Sales Engineer, Gigamon
Ian Farquhar has worked in IT Security for over 25 years and has built his career with large organizations such RSA/EMC, Cisco, Sun MicroSystems, Silicon Graphics/ Cray Research and Macquarie University. Ian is the worldwide security subject matter expert at Gigamon and leads the worldwide security team of specialist sales engineers. He and his team work closely to evaluate and engage with customers whose security needs require a deep level of expertise. He is a key contributor to guiding the development of next-generation security solutions and capabilities, working closely with the teams from product management and engineering. Ian has had experience designing, deploying and evaluating network security architectures in government agencies, enterprises and service providers worldwide. Ian is based in Sydney, Australia and has a B.Sc. degree in Computer Science from Macquarie University.


Uday Deshpande
Group CISO, L&T Group of Companies
Deshpande is a dynamic leader with more than 20 years of experience leading global information security programs, enterprise risk management and compliance projects. He is adept at information security strategy, has designed and implemented security architecture and secured information assets through innovative use of technology. He is successful at building cohesive teams, communicating at all levels, and working with acute & aggressive timelines. He is an astute business manager with a keen understanding of tomorrow's cyber security threats and possesses the skills to align them with organization's strategic business goals. Deshpande constantly aims to improve enterprise security posture in challenging, cost-centric and multifaceted environments.


Sunil Chandiramani
Founder & CEO, Nyka Advisory Services and Independent Director- Jammu & Kashmir Bank

Sameer Ratolikar
CISO, HDFC Bank
In his current role of Chief Information Security Officer & Senior Vice President at HDFC Bank, Ratolikar heads the Information Security Group and provides leadership to the development and implementation of Information Security program across the Bank. Prior he served as CISO with Axis Bank, where he was responsible for developing and implementing robust information strategies in line with business IT initiatives in a time-bound manner. Additionally, he ensured domestic and foreign information security, compliance, and gathered threat intelligence. Previously, Ratolikar served with Bank of India for six years. There, he facilitated information security governance through the implementation of a hierarchical governance program. He led Bank of India in achieving ISO 27001, Business Continuity and PCI-DSS certifications, implemented access control, data leakage prevention, identity and access management, two-factor authentication, encryption, IT GRC solutions, and established and SOC for SIEM. Prior to Bank of India, Ratolikar served as principal systems analyst of security and networking with National Informatics Centre, part of the India Ministry of Communications and Information Technology's Department of Electronics & Information Technology.


Ganesh Prasad
Pre-Sales Manager, India , RSA
Ganesh Prasad currently serves as Pre-Sales Manager for RSA.
Session Contributors
Additional Director General of Police, Govt. Of Maharashtra
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